President continues to run a tight ship

Anthony Scaramucci: Reports of chaos in the White House are off the mark

While the White House is increasingly under siege from emboldened Democrats, reports of chaos are off the mark. The president continues to run a tight ship and field heavy interest from talented candidates for key roles, including chief of staff.

Donald Trump at times can be mercurial and unorthodox in his communication style, but he has actually governed quite moderately. He has increasingly sought bipartisan legislative solutions, including on community reinvestment and prison reform, and shown himself to be a level-headed decision-maker on foreign policy issues.

The president is an entrepreneur at heart, thus he hires and fires employees like a small business owner, not a traditional politician. Turnover is natural and healthy at a startup. If Trump identifies a poor fit on his team, he does not hesitate to move on.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is an example of someone who has come in during the second wave of staffing and excelled in his role. Trump deserves the chance to govern with a team who shares his zest for fixing the bro- ken system in Washington.

Opponents of Trump have continually pushed deep, dark conspiracies about the campaign’s collusion with Russia to win the 2016 election. However, with scant evidence of such a nefarious scheme, they have been forced to pin their hopes for impeachment on minor process crimes, including potential obstruction of justice and campaign finance violations committed by Michael Cohen.

Obstruction is a hard case to make when there is no underlying misdeed, and Cohen’s testimony linking Trump to hush payments cannot be taken at face value given Cohen’s pattern of lies and motivation to plea.

In order to weather the storm, the president needs a chief of staff with the mettle to stand up to the establishment’s wild machinations. He has a tremendous pool of suitors from which to choose, and this time around, having learned from prior staffing mistakes, I have no doubt President Trump will make an outstanding choice.

Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital, served as President Trump’s communications director.